completely confirmed but that there were reports that the president is very angry with mitch mcconnell for not doing enough to get in the way of these investigations. right. i mean, every time there s a good day for trump s relationship with congressional republicans the russia investigation remains the monster in the closet that could up end everything. at the same time, congressional republicans, one, they re making sure that responsible, bipartisan investigations go on. how many are hoping they find something at this point? i think these are people for the past two years more than two years have had to deal in a dual universe where you have to ignore the tweets and the taunts and the trump drama while trying to get things done for the american people. i think that s what they re going to have to continue to do. ken dilanian, thank you so much for taking the time to explain that to us. i appreciate it. thanks. up next, defense secretary james mattis and president trump
in the speech and i do believe this person on this. but bigger picture, trump is livid with gary cohn because gary cohn criticized him over charlottesville. we have reported that, others have reported that. trump can t stand him and i would be stand he doesn t have 1% chance of being a fed chair. no chance. forget it. no chance. no chance. does he survive? he can survive. i don t think trump is going to fire him. there is a so much turmoil. there s a question of whether he ll stick around. whether or not he ll get fired. yeah. so michael steel, talk to me about this this is a huge, huge undertaking with congress and the president essentially said, look, this is totally up to you. do you think he has his head around what it will take? i mean, you have watched them try to rewrite the tax code before. yeah. this is the speech that the congressional republicans wanted to see, they wanted cheerleading. talking about the middle class and talking about rising wages and making
post, new york times, from nbc news and you and your team. can you walk us through what you think the top line frame on this, what do we know now about the investigations that we don t know at the beginning of the week? absolutely, kasie. a number of things. the thing you just mentioned about this potential trump tower moscow deal that was going on right up until january 2016 while donald trump was running for president. that to me is extraordinary. leaving aside the whole question of collusion, it is amazing that a major party presidential candidate was trying to do business in vladimir putin s russia, number one. number two, it s amazing that he was doing it with a guy named felix sater who s a convicted criminal who has a long history of ties to the trump organization. but this is man who donald trump said i wouldn t know if he walked into the room. so now we have the e-mails between sater and trump s attorney michael cohen showing they were trying to get this tower built in mo
and this is where america s main street will begin its big, beautiful comeback. i am fully committed to working with congress to get this job done and i don t want to be disappointed by congress. do you understand me? do you understand? that was president trump last hour making his sales pitch on the need for tax reform. and putting its success squarely on the shoulders of congress. with health care under the bus, tax reform is now at the top of the president s agenda list but it s one he still couldn t offer any details about today. joining the table now, axios national political reporter jonathan swan and my panel still with me. but jonathan,let s start for a second on the details of this. i mean, the president s not going to be writing this bill at the end of the day. no, they have been having the discussions, but it s pretty
trump is having to deal with the fact that president obama has rolled back missile defense throughout eastern europe. so we re dealing with the deficit. so i think that the pronouncements coming out saying that we want peace through strength, we really don t want an arm s race and then having president putin agree that they really can t have an arm s race. it was an admission that their economy is not that great, they have tried to modernize already. but they are going to have to end that because they just don t have the money. so, it was an admission, i think, on president putin s part that if there was some sort of a u.s. commitment to modernize our nuclear weaponry, that we would win it. that the united states would win it because the russians can t compete because of their economy. they are broke because one of the reasons that we slapped sanctions on them after the ukraine invasion. but, david, let me ask you this, there is two schools